What a heartbreaking video - I always tell myself that at the times you least want to hug your child, are the times they need it most and it usually diffuses the situation. Kids need to know that they always have a home where they are loved.
I usually cry at everything so I was prepared, but this one didn't move me. Wearing jeans and kipa sruga is the same as using drugs? Or is the point that you should accept your child even if he wears a kipa sruga? Isn't that obvious?
I usually cry at everything so I was prepared, but this one didn't move me. Wearing jeans and kipa sruga is the same as using drugs? Or is the point that you should accept your child even if he wears a kipa sruga? Isn't that obvious?
No, its not obvious, and there was a message here, not a specific story.
You have probably got no idea how many parents kick their kids out for having "different" standards than they were raised with.
I usually cry at everything so I was prepared, but this one didn't move me. Wearing jeans and kipa sruga is the same as using drugs? Or is the point that you should accept your child even if he wears a kipa sruga? Isn't that obvious?
I did notice that, but I didn't care about that. It was the whole relationship, the drinking, sleeping on the streets, etc.. It wasn't even so much that he got sick, it was what happened to him before than.
I usually cry at everything so I was prepared, but this one didn't move me. Wearing jeans and kipa sruga is the same as using drugs? Or is the point that you should accept your child even if he wears a kipa sruga? Isn't that obvious?
I was going to write just what you wrote, but I thought someone would "yell" at me.
I think the same that you said cassandra: how can one equate wearing a different kippa than the family to taking drudgs?
I usually cry at everything so I was prepared, but this one didn't move me. Wearing jeans and kipa sruga is the same as using drugs? Or is the point that you should accept your child even if he wears a kipa sruga? Isn't that obvious?
No, its not obvious, and there was a message here, not a specific story.
You have probably got no idea how many parents kick their kids out for having "different" standards than they were raised with.
thats a very sad state to be in, to kick out a child just because they are not a duplicate of you and your way of life? thats terrible.
thats a very sad state to be in, to kick out a child just because they are not a duplicate of you and your way of life? thats terrible.
Yes, it is devastatingly sad, and you have to know that it happens to many kids.
I have a son who is "different" (Delicious, delightful, menschlig, but different) and he has so many friends who have been kicked out. Many of his friends were raised in frum homes and are no longer shomer shabbos or kosher, and their parents don't want them in the house.
The common excuse is that they are a bad influence on the younger children.
thats a very sad state to be in, to kick out a child just because they are not a duplicate of you and your way of life? thats terrible.
Yes, it is devastatingly sad, and you have to know that it happens to many kids.
I have a son who is "different" (Delicious, delightful, menschlig, but different) and he has so many friends who have been kicked out. Many of his friends were raised in frum homes and are no longer shomer shabbos or kosher, and their parents don't want them in the house.
The common excuse is that they are a bad influence on the younger children.
I was always taught that you love your kids NO MATTER WHAT, if they come home with three earings, if they dye their hair purple, if they come home gay, if they decide to become not frum. it is precisly at those times, when they think they have lost you that you need to give them the most love to show then that no matter what, they will always be your child.
Thanx so much for posting it is for sure a must read for all of us. For me, as a mother with young kids, I gleaned 2 things: 1. How every second is precious with our kinderlach 2. It helped me put myself in someone's shoes who is experiencing a "different than parent" child.... The golus is dark and BH BH BH we know it's about to end.
I was always taught that you love your kids NO MATTER WHAT, if they come home with three earings, if they dye their hair purple, if they come home gay, if they decide to become not frum. it is precisly at those times, when they think they have lost you that you need to give them the most love to show then that no matter what, they will always be your child.
